Lawsuit Blames Oil Companies for Woman’s Seattle Heat-Dome Death

Oil companies sued over heat dome 'wrongful' death

A U.S. woman is suing seven oil and gas companies, saying they contributed to an extraordinarily hot day that led to her mother's fatal hyperthermia during a heat dome event that also killed more than 600 people in B.C.

Lawsuit blames oil companies for woman’s Seattle heat-dome death

The daughter of a woman killed by the Northwest’s extreme heat wave of 2021 is suing the oil industry over her mother’s death.

Wrongful death lawsuit says Big Oil contributed to heat wave and woman's death

A Washington state woman is suing seven oil and gas companies, saying they contributed to an extraordinarily hot day that led to her mother’s fatal hyperthermia in one of the nation’s first wrongful-death claims seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry...

US woman brings first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil

Misti Leon argues fossil fuel companies’ climate negligence caused her mother’s death during a heatwaveA woman has brought the first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil, claiming fossil fuel companies’ climate negligence caused her mother’s death during a major heatwave.Juliana Leon died of hyperthermia in Seattle at age 65 during the 2021 Pacific north-west heat dome – an event that killed nearly 200 people, and which meteorologists say…

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